68 R Code

[Royce]

Very few people have this sort of thing. Thanks to Jim for finding this and running it to ground.

Update - Jim Pinkerton found an advertisement that, with the help of the data from Kevin Marti, we determined can only be for my car. Apparently it was traded in and ended up being sold as a used car in October of 1968. It’s pretty interesting to me.

That is really cool! I wonder how many people have that level of documentation on their cars?

[bluesky1000]

Update - Jim Pinkerton found an advertisement that, with the help of the data from Kevin Marti, we determined can only be for my car. Apparently it was traded in and ended up being sold as a used car in October of 1968. It’s pretty interesting to me.

Wow - like finding piece to a puzzle! Wonder how it ended up at Murphy Lincoln Mercury and with “…radial ply tires on front…” Very interesting…

[kljacobs]

Very cool find Royce. I can’t imagine why anyone would need tires on an R code after 7,000 miles! Any idea where the car went from there, or did it spend most of its’ life in California?

[Cougar1]

While it is true I did some “leg work” with the production information etc. in determing “which” R code non-GT-E is could be, the credit for finding the ad belongs to Phil Parcells. He sent it to me. His dedication to using several search apps for newspaper ads back in the day is what made this possible.

Jim

[Royce]

No idea. The earliest previous owner that I knew of was in Atlanta, GA.

Very cool find Royce. I can’t imagine why anyone would need tires on an R code after 7,000 miles! Any idea where the car went from there, or did it spend most of its’ life in California?

[bluesky1000]

Very cool find Royce. I can’t imagine why anyone would need tires on an R code after 7,000 miles! Any idea where the car went from there, or did it spend most of its’ life in California?

Yea, just wondering why they would go with radial replacements on the front and use it as a selling point in the ad??

[Royce]

I suspect the rear tires were bald so they moved the good front ones to the rear and installed whatever was handy on the front.

Very cool find Royce. I can’t imagine why anyone would need tires on an R code after 7,000 miles! Any idea where the car went from there, or did it spend most of its’ life in California?

Yea, just wondering why they would go with radial replacements on the front and use it as a selling point in the ad??

[Royce]

It’s going to be in the Tulsa show next weekend. Lots of cleaning to do.

[68PUMA]

That’s great to hear Royce, I’m coming to the show as a spectator and looking forward to seeing it and the rest of the cars.